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time it was deposited in a bank safe in Washington. There was over $110,000 in coin in the lot. Genl Wild took his friend to Washington and demanded the money for the Bureau. The demand was refused and he seized it. Sometime ago, when this money was being transported from Richmond to Washington (just [[strikethrough]] before [[/strikethrough]] after the fall of Richmond) the parties having it in custody were attacked by guerillas near said town, and other monies that they had were stolen from them. Genl W. supposed that some of the stolen money was in the vicinity of Washington, hid in the woods, so he arrested some parties whom he had reason to believe knew about it and put them to [[strikethrough]] turture [[/strikethrough]] torture in order to make them confess. Two men (- one of them a Rev. but a